For diabetic drivers of private or commercial vehicles and with impaired driving fitness, it is particularly important to avoid accidents. They must be aware of and know how to avoid potential ...diabetes-related driving problems. This especially applies to hypoglycemia awareness training, recognition of their hypoglycemic symptoms and intensive self-monitoring of blood glucose levels. There are new EU guidelines for driver's licenses. To determine the suitability of a diabetic person for road traffic, a medical evaluation is necessary. Insulin-treated diabetics should receive and observe the "Advice for Motorists under Insulin Treatment."
In the lower polar E-region electric field and plasma density fluctuations were measured with rocket-borne instrumentation (a floating double probe system and a retarding potential analyzer) during ...the ROSE project. The observational data are presented and compared with the recently developed theory (Gurevich et al. 1996) for long wave ionospheric plasma oscillations induced by the neutral turbulence. The measured shape and anisotropy of the plasma turbulence spectra at ionospheric heights below about 95 km are well described by this theory. Significant amplification of the low frequency plasma fluctuations in strongly disturbed ionospheric conditions is established.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The modules for the Vertex Locator detector of the LHCb experiment represent a technical challenge for their complexity. The design of the sensors uses a complex double metal routing of the ...connection to the read-out strips and a high density of metal lines has to be accommodated in the module. The detectors are n-side read-out to be able to survive the highest radiation damage of any micro-strip sensor used in LHC experiments. The present choice is n-strips on n-type substrates (n-in-n geometry). Double-sided lithography is required, which impact on the cost of the devices and on the module construction. Moreover, the compact size of the hybrid imposes sophisticated technical solutions for cooling the electronics and the detector. The module construction and the possible benefits offered by the choice of p-type substrate detectors compared to the present n-in-n devices are here discussed in details.
Inside-out tracking at CDF Hays, Christopher; Huang, Yimei; Kotwal, Ashutosh V. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
02/2005, Letnik:
538, Številka:
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The Central Outer Tracker (COT) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) is used to reconstruct charged particles in the central rapidity region. The silicon tracker is used to improve the central ...track measurement and to reconstruct charged particles in the forward rapidity region. We describe the inside-out tracking algorithm, which improves the track measurement in the intermediate rapidity region by attaching COT hits to reconstructed silicon tracks.
Diabetes und Beruf Rinnert, K.
Diabetologe,
11/2009, Letnik:
5, Številka:
7
Journal Article
Zusammenfassung
Wahl und Ausübung eines Berufs oder einer Tätigkeit können für einzelne Menschen mit Diabetes durch arbeitsbedingte Risiken und/oder Diabetes-assoziierte Belastungen eingeschränkt ...sein. Deshalb sind einige Tätigkeiten für Menschen mit Diabetes nicht oder weniger gut geeignet. Eine individuelle Analyse und Bewertung der tätigkeits- und krankheitsbedingten Risiken ist notwendig, um Benachteiligungen von Menschen mit Diabetes mellitus zu verhindern.
The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC collision rate, ...critically including the use of vertex information. A new vertex locator system, the VELO Upgrade, has been constructed. The core element of the new VELO are the double-sided pixelated hybrid silicon detector modules which operate in vacuum close to the LHC beam in a high radiation environment. The construction and quality assurance tests of these modules are described in this paper. The modules incorporate 200 \mum thick, n-on-p silicon sensors bump-bonded to 130 \nm technology ASICs. These are attached with high precision to a silicon microchannel substrate that uses evaporative CO\(_2\) cooling. The ASICs are controlled and read out with flexible printed circuits that are glued to the substrate and wire-bonded to the chips. The mechanical support of the module is given by a carbon fibre plate, two carbon fibre rods and an aluminium plate. The sensor attachment was achieved with an average precision of 21 \(\mathrm{\mu m}\), more than 99.5\% of all pixels are fully functional, and a thermal figure of merit of 3 \mathrm{Kcm^{2}W^{-1}}$ was achieved. The production of the modules was successfully completed in 2021, with the final assembly and installation completed in time for data taking in 2022.
The lightning and radio emission detector (LRD) instrument on board the Galileo probe measured the spectral intensity and other characteristics of radio frequency (RF) signals during descent. The ...measured spectra show a frequency dependent height profile with a maximum at the beginning of descent around the 1 bar level and a minimum around the 3–6 bar level Rinnert et al., 1998. The RF propagation is modeled assuming a source region in the water cloud level between 0 and −25 km altitude, an ionospheric reflector above 300 km, and a primarily absorbing interior below about −2000 km altitude (zero altitude is at 1 bar). This paper shows that the LRD observations can be described by an electrical discharge source at a distance of about 15,000 km; we conclude that no sources existed within the equatorial clouds inside this approximate radius around the probe. We also conclude from the propagation modeling that the measured spectral frequency dependence can be interpreted in terms of a source spectrum that is dominated by low frequencies.
Tactical emergency medical support Rinnert, Kathy J; Hall, 2nd, William L
Emergency medicine clinics of North America,
11/2002, Letnik:
20, Številka:
4
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As increases in criminal activity collide with more aggressive law enforcement postures, there is more contact between police officers and violent felons. Civilian law enforcement special operations ...teams routinely engage suspects in these violent, dynamic, and complex interdiction activities. Along with these activities comes the substantial and foreseeable risk of death or grievous harm to law officers, bystanders, hostages, or perpetrators. Further, law enforcement agencies who attempt to apprehend dangerous, heavily armed criminals with a special operations team that lacks the expertise to treat the medical consequences that may arise from such a confrontation may be negligent of deliberate indifference. Meanwhile, evidence exists within the military, civilian law enforcement, and medical literature that on-scene TEMS serves to improve mission success and team safety and health, while decreasing morbidity and mortality in the event of an injury or illness suffered during operations. National professional organizations within law enforcement and emergency medicine have identified and support the fundamental need for mission safety and the development of a standard model to train and incorporate TEMS into law enforcement special operations. The overall objective of TEMS is to minimize the potential for injury and illness and to promote optimal medical care from the scene of operations to a definitive care facility. The design, staffing, and implementation of a TEMS program that maximally uses the community resources integrates previously disparate law enforcement, EMS, and emergency medical/trauma center functions to form a new continuum of care 55.
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is designed to detect decays of b- and c- hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of the LHC Run 2, many of the LHCb ...measurements remained statistically dominated. In order to increase the trigger yield for purely hadronic channels, the hardware trigger will be removed, and the detector will be read out at 40 MHz. This, in combination with the five-fold increase in luminosity, requires radical changes to LHCb's electronics, and, in some cases, the replacement of entire sub-detectors with state-of-the-art detector technologies. The Vertex Locator (VELO) surrounding the interaction region is used to reconstruct the collision points (primary vertices) and decay vertices of long-lived particles (secondary vertices). The upgraded VELO will be composed of 52 modules placed along the beam axis divided into two retractable halves. The modules will each be equipped with 4 silicon hybrid pixel tiles, each read out by 3 VeloPix ASICs. The total output data rate anticipated for the whole detector will be around 1.6 Tbit/s. The highest occupancy ASICs will have pixel hit rates of approximately 900 Mhit/s, with the corresponding output data rate of 15 Gbit/s. The LHCb upgrade detector will be the first detector to read out at the full LHC rate of 40 MHz. The VELO upgrade will utilize the latest detector technologies to read out at this rate while maintaining the required radiation-hard profile and minimizing the detector material.
